XeroxCool

@XeroxCool@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of bike lights throw a circle/oval/flood pattern which means they have to be aimed high to be usable. It’s just a flashlight at that point. It’s easy to make a decent beam pattern but neither the manufacturers nor the buyers give a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨these eco-facist stickers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat cheese and sin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And your last 20 comments are you being a condescending twat, so I’ll go ahead and ignore you without looking further. I’ll check again after you’ve done a track day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The location, modes, and featured cars are continually changing in Forza. I’m lagging on the titles and will probably skip Forza Horizon 5, but FH6 has great reviews on launch. While I can guess you aren’t into cars/racing like that, I guess I can’t really differentiate it from human sports games as much as I thought I could. A new football game has the same field shape, the same rules, and mostly the same teams, but just updates the roster and maybe background appearance? I don’t get it. But I can see the correlation to racing games if driving is a chore (not me) and if you aren’t up to date on the latest trends in cars (me). I guess both really come down to whether or not you can empathetically experience the game as something you actually want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My Xb One is already named XXXBONE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a sporty, questionable car after playing this game has given me unending anxiety. Any time I leave the house and feel my phone buzz a minute later, I fear it’s going to be a call saying “hey, somethings wrong with your ride. You left a huge oil slick at the start line”

  For those that didn’t play, the game opens with a race between you in the cover art M3 GTR against the final boss in the Mustang. It’s for pinks and your car breaks down after a few minutes, forfeiting your car to the rival. The campaign then has you climb the ladder to get back to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds about right. I guess I only remember the scenes. Maybe even just the #1 guy and the Mustang guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason gym membership and therapy is provided. It improves patient quality of life. You sound really angry at people who aren’t hurting you. Perhaps therapy could could. Yes, I’d like to have it subsidized for you. Then try talking to people who don’t conform to your idea of “normal”. Transitioning is not just a breast implant or hair implant. It’s a complete change, not a “medical adventure”.

  Go masturbate and reread your comment. Perhaps the hostility in response to your questions are because you’re asking it like an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember having to drag a chase out for a long time. 60 or 90 minutes. I think it was a challenge race form outside the campaign. It mixes into the finale race/chase where I think the escape strategy has to develop before letting you jump the bridge, all on heat 6 for the first and only time.

  Yes, for all of those, so much effort could be lost to one professional placement of a spike strip. Good times. Bad times. But at least you could reset the game to win the loot boxes back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Needs, speeds, Battlestar Galactica

  I my circle, I was the only one playing the next title, Need for Speed Carbon, who recognized Tamoah Penikett. Helo / Sharon’s husband on BSG

  But anyway, I don’t remember if all the NfSMW blacklist racers had acting scenes. I think some were skipped. Not like the acting was deep. But, neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just urinals. The first day of the year with shorts at home always brings a surprise chilly mist on my shins from a regular toilet. It is what it is. You’re doing it as good as it gets. Either you’re experiencing the normal amount of spray or your stream makes extra spray. Either way, it is what it is, it sounds. All you can do is lean forward and spread your feet asuch as you can to avoid collecting the mist. Side wall is my go-to. Lipped walls are my enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any worthwhile reviews of the USA UFO/UAP files released?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you not entertained?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any worthwhile reviews of the USA UFO/UAP files released?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping for recommendations of reasonable discussion. I want to exhaust all logical explanations before getting to the purely… theoretical. These clips haven’t been covered by my usual channels so I wasn’t sure where to look to find where it’s been “discussed plenty” so if you have some recommendations, I’d appreciate you sharing them.

  I’m all for logical explanations. I enjoy the debunking because it’s fascinating to see how a relatively mundane event can be so strange without full context. I went to one of the “drone” hotspots at some point and, while I do beleive there were some drones at some point, all I found were fields of people who had never looked at regular planes at night before. They had no concept of the idea they had no concept of distance and therefore no basis for determining altitude. Plus most didn’t know which direction the major airport was, likely because they follow a road labeled “north” despite going ENE for that stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any worthwhile reviews of the USA UFO/UAP files released?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. That did at least bring me to Hank Green showing the 2025 UAP over the water discussing a number of details I wouldn’t have recognized on my own. The mileage readout and the wide shot made it make sense instantly

• Are there any worthwhile reviews of the USA UFO/UAP files released?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ireland is a Catholic majority country. Yet all the Americans I know who identify as Irish are Protestant. Why is that?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With or without the word, it was the same mentality elsewhere, too. Many Irish diasporas align with Italians. They clashed with each other because they arrived at the same time at the same place. They put each other down to try to climb up.

  Then as they clowly rose neck and neck, dispersing into better neighborhoods, they freed space for the next bottom rung to move in. So naturally, the bitter rivals became best friends and, together, shit on the next diaspora.

  The cycle repeats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is finally entirely dead to me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I deleted my account during the API fiasco. I stopped surfing there entirely. I guess there’s also Discord communities that cover gaming bases too, but I struggle with that UI/organizer presentation when it comes to trying to find the right place for the info I need. So take your pick: Facebook, reddit, discord. They’re all apparently on the same slippery slope. Classic forums are dead (and no doubt the photo bucket debacle of 2017 pushed that).

  But the cool thing is my life get suddenly busier around the same time I kicked reddit, and now I just don’t have that kind of time to get into hobbies deep enough to really need those places. Cool. [sad trombone sounds]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of internet most harmful to teens?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other people covered the sneakily harmful stuff that’s publicly accepted. I’m still gonna say 4chan. I assume it’s still up. I like to think I grew out of it or that I had a good filter as a teen, but I’m sure it negatively affected my views at least for some time. But half of the evil shit just seemed funny. You can’t tell who is serious and who is trolling because they’re all in the same thread together, feeding equally. So now I’m occasionally reminded of the actual death, mutilation, and harm I saw there.

  I don’t know what other boards are similar and active. I don’t know what other modernized sites have joined that niche. I’m aware regular social platforms push harmful conspiracy and fringe theories and create their own spiraling echo chambers. 4chan is still a terrible place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is finally entirely dead to me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one in my real life left reddit. Reddit and Facebook are the only ones with active communities for many of my games and interests. I avoid it, but yes, it’s quite active and is now the only relevant search result on recent news and strategies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. My stock pixel keyboard has ℅ as an alternate long press to %. In SwiftKey, the alternate is ‰ while c/o seems to be nowhere to be found. I didn’t know I had either available as long press q from the main keyboard group is just % and nothing else (some keys have multiple alternates, like long press x shows $ but also has ¢£₹¥€, for example)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  50% actual sugar, 50% simple carbs. Maybe 4oz of milk, more likely 8oz of sugar water juice. Pastries, toast, waffles, pancakes, donuts, neon cereal, processed oats, and orange juice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A meme is a repeating joke or other pop culture act, including the category of text overlay templates. I don’t see any other uses of this panel, so it is not yet a meme. It is currently a comic panel.

  Make a second one and we’re all set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phone is ewwww, thumbs go brrrrt

  While I do call, it’s frustrating that the call adds a significant opportunity for order error. I don’t use DoorDash, but many places don’t have a competent online system, or one at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s huge “I can’t fix this problem myself” mentality. Dominoes isn’t sending anyone to that neighborhood. Could you imagine the furthered dystopic trend if Dominoes (and others) COULD choose which neighborhoods to not serve by 3rd party? If multi-brand corporations could so directly manipulate product availability like that?

  There’s enough problems in poorer areas becoming “food deserts” by lacking proper groceries and only having garbage fast food available in walking/bussing distance. Let’s not give the French fry overlords any more power to tailor the markets through delivery denial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exchange rate doesn’t tell you how expensive things really are. Take Hawaii for example. It’s a United State and uses the USD. Yet, everything there is more expensive because of shipping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking for an #apple #iPhone that comes in #orange #project16april2026 #all #frontpage #fyp #hot #ok #sale #android

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I feel similarly about Elite: Dangerous. Disclaimer: I haven’t played NMS because E:D gets all my spacetime tokens and I’m fine with that. “Community goals” (high payout limited time events) get me to play because it gives me purpose for a week. For the most part though, I like coming to it for an hour or two when I want to take a break from story-laden games. Hunt pirates for an hour, fly out of inhabited space and explore for an hour (well, an hour out, an hour there per session, an hour back next time), or just chill with music and asteroid mining.

  So I do wish there was a plot at times, but I do appreciate it for mixing up the routine with simple cruising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Saturday Night Live get so cringe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The music part is so obviously this. OP, check an older season’s musical guest list. Gonna take a guess you know every act from a season in 2006-2011. The acts are always relevant to pop culture in some way (2026 references incoming), either being a current trending artist (Anita), an older one that’s touring or releasing an album (Gorilla), and/or someone continually famous (Cher, Paul McCartney) . It’s not SNL’s fault you don’t know them. If you were this age in 2006 (so, your parents maybe?) would you (your parents) know Nelly Furtado, Shakira, Akon, AFI, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Snow Patrol, or Death Cab for Cutie? Those aired 05-07.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Get EV. Make it do the skateboard design idea where the chassis/drive train is a skateboard under the cabin/cargo body. Delete the bolts that join the halves, replace with bungee cords. Done.

  I had a toy car at some point that had plunger bumpers that reversed motor direction on impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunglasses suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been looking at Neven, but have no idea if they’re as big as they seem or if they’re any more durable than Knockaround.

  I like Knockaround’s styles, specifically the Fast Lanes for being somewhere between a classic Rayban and a square aviator, but I keep ending up with scratched lenses. They do have a one-time warranty, but I’m not sure the extent of replacement due to wording. Only tried it once directly through customer service before I realized there’s an actual policy. I took much better care and even ordered more (different colors), but they still wear out. Daily wear, rotate through ~6 pairs. Get about 2 years out of them. I guess that’s fine, but my old sunglasses weren’t so consumable. Maybe I just not familiar with the longevity of mirrored coatings. They’re ~$35usd each and sales are frequent. The custom shop is neat.